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$\"Ahead$ <\/p>\n

Ross MacKenzie<\/a> has\u00a0a nice breakdown of what motivates \u2013 and what is wrong with \u2013 attempts to identify ahead-of-its-time knowledge of science in the Bible. Some of these are very dubious \u2013\u00a0far from being the idea design for a ship, the box-shaped humongous ark may not have been seaworthy at all. Others are so vague as to be ridiculous \u2013 such as \u201cGenesis 1\u201d being matched with \u201cHubert Spencer\u2019s Scientific Principles.\u201d Many are simply wrong \u2013 Leviticus 11 has nothing to do with diseases being transferred from animals to humans. And some misunderstand the text and do not take it literally enough \u2013 the stars were thought of as angelic or divine beings that literally sing, not as giving off\u00a0\u201csignals.\u201d That last instance illustrates the main problem that predominates throughout \u2013 the reading back of modern science into texts which not only did not articulate it ahead of its time, but frequently express themselves in ways which, if taken at face value, are at odds with the conclusions of modern science, reflecting their ancient\u00a0context and its assumptions about the cosmos.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m taking this too seriously. Even the title is poorly thought out. Bibles are \u201creal\u201d \u2013 you can pick one up and look at it. But that is presumably not what this list is aimed at showing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"